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Show "V 4, i'- Vr ' 's . I PROVO POST, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921. 3 little doorway I had been naked, beThere is, there must be some fore me cried. was a small patch of moonlit way, and John Carter, who has fought sky which showed through s ragged his way through a strange jvorld for aperture.- -; love of you, will find It." - As my hands passed over my body ' S 3 And with my words there crept came in contact with pockets and above the threshold of my conscious they In one of these a small parcel of S ntnd a scries of nine long' forgotten matches wrapped In oiled paper. One sounds. Like a flash of lightning in of these matches ' I struck, and Its dim B the darkness their full purport dawned flame what appeared to be up lighted mblemtySttipito upon roe the key to the three great a huge cave, toward the back of which By Edf ar Rice Burroughs . C lloora Jifjhsi atmosphere plant! still figure 3 Turning suddenly toward Tardos huddled over a 'stranger Aithor of bench. As I apj S tiny " Mora as I still clasped my dying love proached It I saw that it waa the dead 5 to my breast I cried: believe Buick owners praise mummified remains of a little old Tarz&n of the Apes 3 "A flyer, Jeddak ! Quick Order and woman with long black hair, and the a cars try your swiftest flyer to the palace top.-- I thing it leaned over was a small charcan sate Barsoom yet" coal burner npon which rested a new 1921 Buick. Knxtrationi br Irwin Blyert 1 He did not wait to question, but la round - copper vessel a containing an instant a guard was racing to the small quantity of greenish powder. SYNOPSIS OP LAST INSTALLMENT Buick Valve-in-He- ad You will find was air dock and the nearest though With o large army Carter and Behind her, depending from the reef arid Tars Tarfcas set out to the relief of Ihlu and &imoet gone at the rooftop npon rawhide thongs, and stretching as Helium, besieged by tho Zodangaa they managed to launch the fastest entirely across the cave, was a row of as its car as airscout machine that the human skeleton. army. The green Martians aare com one-maFrom the thong pletely Tictorlus, Dejah Thorls being skill of Baraoom had ever produced. believe. lead which held them stretehed another tT restored to her people. Thorls a dosen times CHAPTER XVII. Dejah Thorls andKissing Dejah Woola, who would tbe dead hand of tbe little old woman ; new in a by commanding as I touched the cord the skeletons and Carter are united in marriage. to remain and followed have me, guard comword In the midst of their happiness can swung to the motion with a noise as of fully is brought that the atmosphere plant her, I bounded with my old agility and the rustling of dry leaves. resilient springs, has failed in operation, which means strength to the hlghramparts of the It was a most grotesque and horrid death to all living things On the palace,' and In another moment I was tableau and I hastened ont Into the headed toward the goal of the hopes planet. fresh air; glad to escape from so gruea combiTen minutes after it touched at the of all Baraoom. pleasing some a place. I bad to fly low to get sufficient air palace a message called me to the of the practical. The sight that met my eyes as I council chamber, which I found filling to breathe, but I took a straight course a which small out upon stepped ledge to so bad bottom and across an old sea with the members of that body. ran before the entrance of the cave is inOn the raised platform of the throne rise only a few feet above the ground. filled me with consternation. withtraveled awful I for was Tardos Mors, pacing bach and velocity, Buick Service. sured by A new heaven and a new landscape face. When my errand was a race against time met forth with tense-draw- n my gaze. The silvered mountains with death. The face of Dejab Thorls pH were in their seats be turned toIn the distance, the almost stationary hung always before me. As I turned ward Us. Since January , regular equipment d moon hanging In tbe sky, the This morning," be said, word for a last look aa I left the palace garon all models includes Cord Tires valley below me were not of reached the several governments of den I bad seen her stagger and sink Mars. scarce believe my eyes, could I Incubeside little the the upon ground Baraoom that the keeper of the atmosbut the truth slowly forced Itself ujion phere plant had made no wirelesa re- bator. That she had dropped InInto the me I was looking upon Arizona from coma which end would last death. port for two days, nor had almost the same ledge from which ten years ceaseless calls upon him from a score If the Sir supply remained unreplen-IsheI had gazed with longing upon before and well I so, knew, throwing of capitals elicited a sign of response. Mara. 1 overflung All day a thousand cruisers have been caution to the winds, Burying my head In my arms I searching for him until, Just now, one board everything but the engine and to turned, broken, and sorrowful, down even and my ornaments, of them returns bearing his dead body, compass, which was found in the pits beneath lying on my belly along the deck with the trail from the cave. Above me shone the red eye of Mars his bouse horribly mutilated by some one hand on the steering wheel and I to lever her awful secret, forty-eigother the the holding speed pushing assassin. Isst million I thin milee of notch Its the sir away. 1 do not need to tell split you what Oils Did tbe Martian reach the pump means to Baraoom. It would take dying Mara with the speed of a meteor. months to penetrate those mighty . An hour before dark the great walls room? Did the vitalizing air reach the atmosphere plant loomed sud- the people of that distant planet In walls, In fact the work has already of time to save them? Was my Dejah commenced, and there would be little denly before me, and with a sickening to I thud the before Thorls plunged ground alive, or did her beautiful body were the of fear to the pumping engine the small door which was withholding lie cold In death beside the tiny golden plant to run as it should and as they the spark of life from the Inhabitants Incubator In tbe sunken garden of the all have for hundreds of years ; but the an entire planet ef Inner courtyard of the palace of TarThe worst, we fear, has happened. Beside the door a great crew of men dos Mors, tbe Jeddak of Helium? Instruments show a rapidly decreasing had been laboring to pierce the wall, For ten years I have waited and air pressure on all parts of Baraoom but they had scarcely scratched the prayed for an answer to my questions. the engine has stopped, flintlike surface, and now most of For ten yean I have .waited and My gentlemen," be concluded, "we them lay In the last sleep from which prayed to be taken hack to the world have at beet three days to live." not even air woujd awaken them. of my lost love. 1 would rather lie There was absolute silence for sevseemed much worse here dead beside her there than live on Conditions and a then eral minutes, young noble than at Helluth, and It was with diff- earth all those millions of terrible arose, and with his drawn sword held I breathed at all. There miles from her. that iculty hla above head Tardos addressed high few men still conscious, and to were a ' " The old mine, which I found unMors. one of these I spoke. - 0 has made -- me fabulously touched, Helium "The men of have prided 1 can open these doors is there a I "If 1 wealth for care WHEN BEITKK AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK 'WILL BUILD THEM wealthy j but what themselves that they have ever shown who can start the engines? ! As I sit here tonight In my little Barsomn how a nation of red men man should live, now Is our opportunity to asked. study overlooking the . Hudson, just 1 can," be replied, if you open twenty years have elapsed since 1 first FARMERS HIRE A RAINMAKER. show them how they should die. Let 4r ... I can laat'but a few momenta opened my eyes upon Mgra. ...si go about. our duties as though a quickly. Hatfield, the Rainmaker,' has I can see her shining In the aky been engaged by the wheat growers thousand useful years still lay before wore, But It la useless they are both, dead and no one else upon Baraoom ; us." through the little window by my desk, of the arid Northwest to give them knew the secret of these awful locks. and chamber The tonight she seems calling to me hia services. Hatfield has been a rang with applause For three days men crazed with fear Capital Stock Paid in $100,000 Surplus Fund $100,000 aa she has not called before Rainmaker 20 years, notwithstandand as there was nothing better to do again Buhave surged about this portal tn vain since that States Weather United the ing I dead think and the feara of the to night, than long allay people C. E. Loose, Vice-Preside- nt Reed Smoot,' President reau says nobobdy can make rain but to solve Its mystery." I can see, across that awful abyss of by our1 example we went our ways attempts no San Bureau. once the Calif., Diego, becomI to was I had time Cashier J. talk, A, Bnttle. Asst. Cashier woman with smiles upon our faces and sorrow space,' a beautiful black-haire- d Hatfield he compliment of suing very weak and It waa with diffi- standing In "the garden of a palace, and paid him for G. a F. gnawing at our hearts. when cloud Asst Cashierr Richmond, ing .damages I controlled my mind at all. at her side Is a little 'toy who - returned to my palace I culty that When puts his burst followed his exjeriments. HatBut with a final effort, as I sank arm around her as she points Into the field believes he can make rain and Our growth is accountable to at least two things. First, found that th rumor already had knees I hurled the nine toward the planet Earth, vliile at that seems to convince others. reached Dejah Thorls, so I told her weakly to my sky the confidence the people of this community have in this thought waves at that awfal thing be- their feet Is a huge and hideous creaall that 1 had beard. me. Tbe Martian had crawled to ture a 1th a fore CITED LOSING HIS FOR LIFE. bank, and second, the service that has brought about that heprt of gold. We have been very happy, John aide and with (taring eyes fixed on I believe tlut they are waiting for confidence. Carter," she said, "and 1 thank what my A citation from the War Departbefore us we waited the me, and something tells me that I shall ment ever fate overtakes us that tt permits In single panel signed by the Adjutant Genthe silence of death. We solicit your patronage. soon know. us to die together." eral and by President Wilson, for bedoor receded the I THE END J Slowly mighty The next two days brought no noIn on life the bravery "giving hia us.-I attempted to rise and-- fol war fields of France has been reticeable change In the supply of air. fore I was too wenk. low 211 it hut of a house to vole 79, the By vived by a North Dakota but on the morning of the third day After tt," I cried to my companion, adopts a resolution calling upon the For a while after he came home he breathing became difficult at the highand if you reach the pumproonj turn President for an accounting of ex- tried to convince the War DepartMONEY-B- UY s er attitudes of tbs roof top". The loose ail the pumps.' Tt'Ts the tnlj penditures from the- - $150, 600,4(10 ment he handt been killed in action disat hia fund filled but had to placed contingent it up and now someand plazas of llellum were to exist tomor- posal during the war. The measure how he cantgive work up an enthusiasm with people. All business had ceased, chnnee Barsoom has I arouses high party feeling, th'e Demo over this distinction. for the most part the 'people looked rowFrom where I N I opened the see crats opposing It bitterly. lay unalterof their face the Into bravely The reparations .question.. Is .conI as and mnd then the third, doorrand able doom. Here and there; however, la getting to be the verting the Vaterland into a Half price saw Barsoom of the crawling hope men and women gave way to quiet Cash and Carry System. . regular price. Lowest Prices. weakly on hands and knees throrgh grief. 1 . unconscious . sank Inst the lMrway Toward the mUdle of tbs day many of the weaker commenced to succumb upon the grout d - WEEK ENDING MARCH and within an hour the people of Bar- 5, 1921. CHAPTER XVIII. Boom were sinking by' thousands Into 48-l- b sack Patent Flour. High the unconsciousness which precedes r At the Arizona C?ve. 100 lbs. 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